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... It was a perilous honour to be a tradesman to the Court of Philip II of Spain. His son, Don Carlos (of whose eccentricities Dr. A. S. Rappoport tells in his Ma ...
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THREE CHARACTER STUDIES: The Prince of This World
... THREE CHARACTER STUDIES The Prince of This World When first Sir W. S. Gilbert inculcated the sound principle of gilding the Philosophic Pill, a spirit of inspiration must have struck Mr. Joseph Hocking, whose nineteenth work is now before us (Ward, Lock: 6s.). There is no more popular pur veyor of a certain type of fiction than he, and The Prince of This World will rank with All Men Are Liars, ...
ROUND THE THEATRES
... BOUND THE THEATRES. By Vedette. THE round of the theatres that one makes just now is not, and cannot be, a very extended one, but it is at any rata a good deal longer than any that is generally prac ticable at this time of the year. A far larger proportion of the West End houses than usual is avoiding, or at any rate postponing, the summer clóture, and the country cousin or the American ...
A Racing Notebook: Royal Pleasure
... A Racing' HotelbooM. By 33 T)h Syce.9' Royal Pleasure. I HAVE the best reasons for stating that his Majesty the King recently expressed his pleasure that the horses at Egerton House, trained by Richard Marsh, and at present leased to the Earl of Derby, had been showing good form on the racecourse. Two of them which had won were Perrier, since sold for 2,000 guineas to go to the Argentine, and ...
ROUND THE THEATRES
... . By Vedette. FOR one reason or another, the most likely one being, 1 suppose, the weather in its unfriendliness towards out door amusements, the London theatres are, 1 unctrstard doing much better than is usual at this time ol year. This may well be the case, for there has been nothing milch of. late to tempt playgoers to leave town, while there is a good deal to tempt them to return ...
ROUND THE THEATRES
... . By Vedette. I AM very glad to find that Sir Herbert Tree is taking the bold, and I may say revolutionary, step of arranging his important premiere at His Majesty's next week for the special convenience of those whose duty it is to write about it directly the performance is over. If, as he pro mises, his final curtain falls at a quarter to ten, no dramatic critic need complain of the ...
OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: THE PALACE THEATRE OF VARIETIES
... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. THE PALACE THEATRE OF VARIETIES. OLD visitors to the Palace Theatre miss nowadays the feature which for years seemed inseparable from its success. It was one of the attractions of the place-- though not in the bill-- to be sure of seeing Charles Mor ton, the veteran manager-- in his seat at the back of the auditorium-- receiving the friendly homage of the' many who during ...
Ragna
... Ragna. By Anna Costantini. Greening.) It must be admitted that Ragna was a very unfortunate young woman. Miss Costantini's 350 pages are a witness to her misfortunes A cat may look at a king, but it is inadmissible for a little Norwegian schoolgirl to fall in love with a Prince on her way home from the convent. She scarcely went so far, yet far enough to find herself in that unpleasant ...
A LITERARY LETTER: New Letters by the Author of The Dutch Republic--The Making of a Great Historian--The ..
... A LITERARY LETTER: Hew Letters Iby ftlhto Atmttlhoff' P f 54 TIhe tmftclh. I&eptifllbMc 90 Tlhe MafiSiiagl a Gread Mnsteiriigiim TIhe Acadlesimy 5 ILitteratUnipeo London, August 3, 1910. The publication of a new volume of the Letters of John Lothrop Motley is a peculiar pleasure to me because the more of his letters one has read the more one wants to read and I had read all that have been ...
The Brass-bounder
... The Brass- bounder. By David W. Bonk. Duckworth The Brassbounder is a gentleman who goes to sea, not as the usual sailorman, but as an apprentice to learn seafaring against the time when he shall himself become an Old Man in command, and Mr. David W. Bone's book of that name is a delightful account by one ot these ot a voyage in an old-time sailing-ship from Glasgow to 'Frisco and back with ...
London Nights Entertainments: THE ROBERTSON COMEDIES; AT THE CORONET THEATRE
... London Nights Entertainments BY JINGLE. THE ROBERTSON COMEDIES AT THE CORONET THEATRE MR. ROBERT ARTHUR has spared no pains to produce the comedies of the late T. W. Robertson in a manner worthy of their great reputation. Whether in this rapid age these comedies will continue to delight the average theatre-goer is probably open to question. We are not given nowadays to feeding our emotions ...